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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

Subjects : clep, literature
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






2. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.






3. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.






4. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






5. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.






6. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






7. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.






8. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






9. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






10. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






11. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






12. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






13. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






14. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.






15. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.






16. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.






17. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






18. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.






19. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






20. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.






21. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






22. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






23. The selection of words in a literary work.






24. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






25. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






26. Broken down acts.






27. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






28. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.






29. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.






30. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






31. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






32. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.






33. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






34. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.






35. The dictionary meaning of a word.






36. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.






37. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.






38. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






39. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.






40. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






41. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






42. What a story or play is about.






43. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






44. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.






45. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






46. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






47. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.






48. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






49. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.






50. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.